COSMOS: Journal of the Traditional Cosmology Society (ISSN 0269 8773).
This traditional Yearbook, founded in 1985, from volume 10 (1994) has become a twice-yearly journal, containing scholarly articles, short essays and book reviews. The concern of the Society is with: exploring myth, religion and cosmology across cultural and disciplinary boundaries; and with increasing our understanding of world views in the past and the present. It is edited by Emily Lyle, School of Scottish Studies, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, EH8 9LD, United Kingdom.
Details of the Society's activities and current subscription rates can be obtained from Ms. Mary Brockington, Secretary, Traditional Cosmology, 3 Eskvale Court, Penicuik, Midlothian, Scotland EH26 8HI, United Kingdom. Details of institutional subscription to Cosmos may be obtained from: Hisarlik Press, 4 Catisfield Road, Enfield Lock, Middlesex EN3 6BD, United Kingdom.
Culture and Tradition
This journal is published annually with the cooperation of the Folklore Students Association of Memorial University of Newfoundland and the Ethnology students of the French-speaking Laval University in Quebec. Its present subscription is $CAN 8.00 to individuals.
The editors welcome manuscripts on 'any subject of interest to folklorists, such as traditional arts, music, foodways, architecture, beliefs, oral literature, cultural psychology, and sociological structure of regional, ethnic, religious and industrial groups in Canada'.
All editorial correspondence should be sent to Culture and Tradition, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Box 115, St. John's, Newfoundland, AIC 5S7 Canada, as should subscriptions.
The Folk Music Journal (ISSN 053 9684).
This leading journal is published annually by The English Folk Dance and Song Society (c/o, 2 Regents Park Road, London NW1 7AY, United Kingdom. It publishes papers on all aspects of folk music, folk dance, and folk song, focusing principally but not exclusively on the English speaking world. Contributions come from many perspectives, including folklore, social anthropology, social history, ethnomusicology, and literary studies. Articles may be theory- or fieldwork- based and local, regional or international in scope. The generous reviews section covers books, journals, discs, audiotapes, etc., on (traditional) music and dance, favouring the interdisciplinary and comparative studies.
The journal is sent free to members of the Society. (See above).
History of the Human Sciences (ISSN 0952 6951).
This journal which completed its seventh volume in 1994, and which appears four times per year, aims to expand our understanding of the human and humanly made world through a broad interdisciplinary approach. It also states that it 'provides an interdisciplinary forum for contemporary social science research that examines its own historical origins in an effort to review current practice'. Thus it contains critical articles about sociology, anthropology and politics, linking their interests with those of philosophy, literary criticism, art history, linguistics æsthetics and law.
Volume 7 included articles on: literature and the rhetoric 19th-century English psychiatry; nature expelled from her garden; notions of hot and cold; the shifting concept of the self; identity and self-reflection; language, narration and the self; Foucault's The History of Sexuality; etc.
Individual subscriptions, £33.00 per year, should be sent to Sage Publications, 6 Bonhill Street, London, EC2 4PU, United Kingdom.
Journal of Language and Social Psychology (ISSN 0261 927X).
This journal, which completed its twelfth volume in 1993 appears four times a year and is still edited (by Kathy Kellermann and James Bradac) from the Department of Communication, University of California, Santa Barbara, U.S.A., 93106. It publishes contributions exploring the social dimensions of language and the linguistic implications of social life. Its articles are drawn from a wide range of disciplines including sociology and anthropology and examines subject areas such as language and emotion, social factors in bilingualism, language planning, social cognition, and linguistic factors in aging.
Its 1993 subscription to individuals was $US 62.00.
Review of Scottish Culture (ROSC) (ISBN 0 86976 183 5).
This annual journal, founded in 1984, fills a gap 'in the study of Scottish material culture at all levels', covering: social and economic history; rural, urban, maritime and land-based topics; applied and decorative arts; graphics and design; language; and 'the actions and interactions of the people of the countryside and of incomers'.
Although research based, it is intended to be read by all those concerned with cultural heritage. Volumes are well-illustrated with many reviews of theory-based as well as Scottish culture. Its editor is Emeritus Professor Alexander Fenton, who may be contacted c/o, The School of Scottish Studies, University of Edinburgh, EH8 9LD, United Kingdom.
Subscriptions, £10.00 annually should be sent to Canongate Academic, 14 Frederick Street, Edinburgh EH2 2HB, United Kingdom.
Theory, Culture and Society: Explorations in Critical Social Science (ISSN 0263 2764).
This quarterly journal, now in its twelfth year, (issued in February, May, August and November) is edited by Michael Featherstone, University of Teeside, U.K. Its masthead stresses that it 'caters for the resurgence of interest in culture within contemporary social science'. Recent issues feature papers by and about modern cultural theorists such as Focault, Bourdieu and Baudrillard, and on Islamization, Modernity, Power, Images of Mobility and the history of Flamenco.
The individual annual subscription is £33 and it should be sent to: Sage Publications Ltd., 6 Bonhill Street, London EC2A 4PU, United Kingdom. (Fax: + 44(0)71 - 374 - 8741).
Tocher: Tales, Songs and Traditions from the Archives of the School of Scottish Studies, University of Edinburgh
Tocher was created in 1971 to supplement the academic journal, Scottish Studies - see the account of it in Australian Folklore No. 9, 1994, p. 194 - with 'a new outlet for treasury of oral tradition in the School's archives, which could be appreciated by the people who had recorded their memories as well as scholars and others interested in folklore and oral history'. Accorcdingly, the contents cover all the Scots dialects and Scottish Gælic, relevant music, necessary linguistic glosses, and biographical notes on tradition-bearers and collections.
Tocher now appears twice a year, the 1994 annual subscription being £6.00 (posted), with many of the 47 back numbers still available. Orders may be placed with the Scottish Cultural Press, PO Box 106, Aberdeen AB9 8ZE, United Kingdom.
Journal of Urban History (ISSN 0096 1442).
This journal, of which volume 21, Number 2 appeared in February 1995 is published four times a year, a volume consisting of the parts issued in November, February, May and August. Its editors are receptive to various methodologies and are concerned about the history of cities and urban societies in all periods of human history and in all geographical areas of the world. Their concerns are analytical or interpretive, rather than purely descriptive, and they favour unexplored but promising dimensions of the urban past for future research. Volume 21, Number 1, the 20th anniversary issue, featured an account of the study of the field of urban history over the last two decades.
The 1994 issues treated of such themes as: making urban elites; management of urban space; the Left in England, 1918-1960; urban perspectives; residential development in (American) cities and suburbs, 1870-1990; 'imagined' urban communities in the 1980s and 1990s; the power of place; urban public space; etc.
The current editor is David R. Goldfield, Department of History, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, NC 28223, U.S.A. Individual subscriptions at $US 48.00 per year should be sent to Sage Publications, Inc., 2455 Teller Road, Thousand Oaks, California 91320, U.S.A. |
